Here’s to Mrs Robinson

I loved Alexander Chancellor’s great piece on the Guardian website about Marian Robinson, who’s moving in with her son-in-law to the White House.  Especially the story about Harry Truman’s mother-in-law (the last one to live in) who once said she knew ‘dozens of men better qualified’ than him to be leader of the free world.  I’m currently in the middle of Season 4 of the West Wing and can’t help feeling they missed a trick not having a presidential mother-in-law…